Tyan S2462 reboot problems
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Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems
From: John Jasen ([email protected])
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No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux. I have a S2460 (which his corrected post says he has), which does not power down under linux, and
No correction from me :-) For me it is still s2462 (aka Thuder K7).
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*never* warm boots cleanly. It does power down under windows, so I assume ACPI powerdown works and APM does not. I have gone under the assumption that a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that involves putting a floppy into the box, so I haven't done it yet. The warm boot problems consist of either a hang after POST (but before bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video
That sounds like it.
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corruption. I don't know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let it try.
I did update to the new BIOS for the 246x (I can never keep them straight either), and that did help some with the halt and reboot problems I was having.
John,
do you recall from which to which version of the BIOS your upgrade
went? The upgrade procedure for the s2462 implies a W98 boot floppy (never ever seen one of those :-) and it also strongly reccommends flashing the CMOS memory. As this involves playing with jumpers on the MB and I have 9 of them screwed into a rack, I hesitate to go that path.... As I wrote the MBs are at 2.09 and the newest version from Tyan is 2.10, with a not very interesting list of fixes/enhancements.
Martin
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